Why a Bare Metal Switch Running Cumulus® Linux®

Linux Fueled the Data Center Compute Revolution Years Ago

Disaggregation in Compute World

Servers: Open EcosystemAgile, open, scalable with unprecedented cost savings

Servers: Legacy SystemsComplex monolithic systems that lock in and don’t scale

Merchant Silicon and Bare Metal Switches Enables the Same Paradigm Shift in the

Network Now

This is Happening in Networking Now

New ParadigmDisaggregate the Networking Gear from the Network

OS

Traditional Network GearComplex monolithic systems that lock in and don’t scale

The Missing Piece: Cumulus® Linux®, Bringing the Linux Revolution to

Networking

Enabled by a Standard Networking OS

The Results for Your Software Defined Data Center

Resulting in Substantial Benefits

Faster Delivers high capacity fabrics

with unprecedented price-performance

Enables next generation architectures

Enables the next wave of scale, collaboration and innovation

Easier Simplifies orchestration,

automation and monitoring of networks

Consistent Linux-based toolsets for network and compute

Affordable Lower OPEX/CAPEX

Break free from vendor lock-in

Enables large ecosystem of native Linux apps

ONIE — Open Network Install Environment

Modern, Efficient Installer Configure management Ethernet interface• IPv6 ND, DHCPv4, Static IP Address

Discover OS installation source• HTTP, FTP, TFTP, SCP

Fetch installation file

Install OS and reboot

Industry Support Enables ODM ecosystem

Open source

Well-documented

ONIE

Cumulus® Linux®

Best of Networking and Linux Come Together IPv4/IPv6 routing and bridging

Modern datacenter & network orchestration, unifying common functions, scaling network specific ones

Linux operations and troubleshooting

A multi-platform operating system for networking hardware that makes building, managing and automating massive-capacity next-generation datacenter networks simple.

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